4th April 2006, 06:39 PM
I agree, Real Job. I would add that there are other, more subtle, pressures on many people in relatively well paid jobs too - the English work ethic, peer pressure and all that. I have known many instances of people pressured to work late and at weekends - unpaid - and who do it (guilty myself) due to the "long hours" culture that we have. There is even criticism from colleagues - "old so-and-so always slopes off at 5.30..." I have generally tried to resist this and defended the sloper-offers, but it can be difficult in a professional give and take situation - sure, you can always nip out to the dentist or whatever, no-one is silly about that sort of thing, but the snag is that it always seems to end up all give and no take.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.